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Kaspersky Halts Europol Partnership After Controversial EU Parliament Vote (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on from the more-roadblocks dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Kaspersky Lab announced it was temporarily halting its cooperation with Europol following the voting of a controversial motion in the European Parliament. The Russian antivirus vendor will also stop working on the NoMoreRansom project that provided free ransomware decrypters for ransomware victims.

The company's decision comes after the EU Parliament voted a controversial motion that specifically mentions Kaspersky as a "confirmed as malicious" software and urges EU states to ban it as part of a joint EU cyber defense strategy. The EU did not present any evidence for its assessment that Kaspersky is malicious, but even answered user questions claiming it has no evidence. The motion is just a EU policy and has no legislative power, put it is still an official document. Kaspersky software has been previously banned from Government systems in the US, UK, Netherlands, and Lithuania.

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  1. Trump hasn't ended Putin support whatsoever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Trump has been effusively praising, justifying, apologizing, and whataboutizing every single military despot he's come across while insulting and mischaracterizing the historical alliances in what is a deliberate effort to weaken them, the EU, NATO, and repeal the Magnitsky Act. There's really no question he's in the pocket of Russia on some level, else he wouldn't have needed to lie about his seeking Moscow Trump Tower, having been there overnight, and on and on and on. It's not a mistake, and it's not a witch hunt. There is a there there, and it's Moscow, and Trump has been in direct and indirect communication with a military despotism there.

    This is treason. Declaring war would make that formally true. Congress must now act, and it realizes that whether or not it chooses to. If it does not, Congressional supporters of treason must also be considered defacto complicit.
    Jeff Flake may be right for the wrong reasons, and late to the realization, but he is not wrong. Neither are the legions of Republicans realizing Trump is not legitimately looking after US interests - and never really was.
    It was a hail mary to pardon his friends and wipe away his decades of fraud, and it has failed spectacularly. Now we see what remains, and we unfortunately see the Republican party is far too weak to police itself anymore.

    1. Re:Trump hasn't ended Putin support whatsoever by BeauHD++(.)+(0) · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Agreed, the whole North Korea thing is to appease PUTIN. Vladimir Putin knew he couldn't handle North Korea himself, so he made his lapdog TRUMP do it for him.

      I find it sickening how the Russians destroyed Hillary Clinton through lies and treasury, pumped up TRUMP by hacking into American voters, and funneled the election effectively right toward Russia. The USA is now a satellite of Russia and it is only gonna get worse from here.

  2. Evidence? Who needs evidence? by AlanObject · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can someone please provide a post or a link to any credible information as to what Kaspersky actually has done wrong? The authorities in the EU and the US has pretty much called them a malware manufacturer but I have never heard of anyone victimized by malware they were alleged to have made.

    My guess is that they refused to play footsie with the U.S. security state and this is the payback.

  3. Re:Evidence? Who needs evidence? by BlueStrat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Kaspersky said the leak happened because the NSA agent took nation-state cyber-weapons home, which its software detected and uploaded to its servers for analysis.

    The software did what it says it will do on the tin which many of it's competitors do as well (never mind that you can easily choose to have that functionality turned off), and because some idiot US TLA contractor commits an illegal act the developers would have no way to predict, the software and the company behind it are the 'bad guys'.

    This is blame-shifting combined with propaganda meant to distract from US domestic issues regarding powerful people and government agencies run amok.

    Strat

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    Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
  4. One of the few by AHuxley · · Score: 3, Insightful

    good brands with skills to help detect new malware and tell the world about
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Stuxnet
    Flame
    Equation Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Duqu
    Nation backed cyber-espionage

    Thats some good real history of protecting users globally. What does the EU cyber defense strategy do? Pass a motion?

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    Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"